"Gaynor's story of courage and strength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us." —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were YoursThe New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her unforgettable new novel in China duringWWII, inspired by true events surrounding the Japanese Army’s internment of teachers and children from a Britishrun missionary school.Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. China,December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, ElspethKent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth,and those in her charge.Tenyearold Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School,protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain and America, Japanese forces take control of the school and the security and comforts Nancy and her friends are used to are replaced by privation, uncertainty and fear. Now the enemy, and separated from their parents, the children look to their teachers – to MissKent and her new Girl Guide patrol especially – to provide a sense of unity and safety.Faced with the relentless challenges of oppression, the school community must rely on their courage, faith and friendships as they pray for liberation – but worse is to come when they are sent to a distant internment camp where even greater uncertainty and danger await . . .Inspired by true events, When We Were Young and Brave is an unforgettable novel about impossible choices and unimaginable hardship, and the lifechanging bonds formed between a young girl and her teacher in a remote corner of a terrible war.
"Gaynor's story of courage and strength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us." —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were YoursThe New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her unforgettable new novel in China duringWWII, inspired by true events surrounding the Japanese Army’s internment of teachers and children from a Britishrun missionary school.Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. China,December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, ElspethKent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth,and those in her charge.Tenyearold Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School,protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain and America, Japanese forces take control of the school and the security and comforts Nancy and her friends are used to are replaced by privation, uncertainty and fear. Now the enemy, and separated from their parents, the children look to their teachers – to MissKent and her new Girl Guide patrol especially – to provide a sense of unity and safety.Faced with the relentless challenges of oppression, the school community must rely on their courage, faith and friendships as they pray for liberation – but worse is to come when they are sent to a distant internment camp where even greater uncertainty and danger await . . .Inspired by true events, When We Were Young and Brave is an unforgettable novel about impossible choices and unimaginable hardship, and the lifechanging bonds formed between a young girl and her teacher in a remote corner of a terrible war.
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